When was the last time the events of a day seemed to be pointing to bad news for you? Did things actually turn out to be as awful as you’d feared? I shared this story with my readers several seasons ago, but this year seems as good a time as any to revisit the lessons…

My love affair began with Black Beauty. I was 7 years old and devoured it page by page after receiving it for Christmas, 1979. Yes, before that I had lesser crushes – The Velveteen Rabbit had nipped at my heart – but none that had ripped it wide open like this one horse’s life story,…

November is a time to contemplate our blessings. So many of us are deeply thankful. And full hearts should spill over into good deeds in the world. Over the last few weeks – via Instagram, Facebook, and emails to my subscribers – I’ve requested stories about the many ways I KNOW you guys show love…

Do you know what tomorrow is? November 13? It’s World Kindness Day. Haven’t heard of it? Neither had I. Not until I saw it on a “Content Calendar” created by Amazon for bloggers and other creatives like me. But apparently it’s been around since 1997 and even has an official flower, the Cosmos bipinnatus. Pretty…

The tiniest phrase in a recent article about the latest massacre – the one at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh – infuriated me. It said the shooter “raged against Jews.” Who are these “Jews”? I’ll tell you who “they” are. Over the course of my life, people – who happen to have Jewish…